However, when using editors for writing code, such buttons are often not available, or you may not be able to select text with a mouse.

Markdown is a language (markup language) that lets you represent headings, emphasis, and lists by adding simple characters to text.

You often use it in editors like VS Code, Notion, Obsidian, so I made a cheat sheet (there are many like this on the web, but I wanted something a bit simpler).

Headings

Headings use #.

## タイトル

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Text formatting

Bold

**太字にしたい文字**

This becomes bold

Italic

_斜体にしたい文字_

This becomes italic

Lists

- `-`を入れた後にスペースを入れると
- 箇条書きになります

• If you put - followed by a space
• it becomes a list

Links

[リンクテキスト](https://example.com)

Link text

There are many other syntaxes, but if you cover these, you can look up the rest when needed.